Tag: productivity
Whip Out the WIP Board
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Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been providing you steps to stay productive and focused in work and in life. If you completed your mind map...
How to Make a Mind Map
Any Harry Potter fans out there? If so, you’re familiar with the idea of a pensieve.
The wizard Albus Dumbledore uses the pensieve—a large, shallow...
Going Back to the Blue Line
The COVID-19 crisis has upended business as usual, and it’s unclear what will happen when some or all of us return to work. Supply...
VIDEO: A Multitasking Lesson for Kids
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If you’ve got school-age kids, or teach them, they’re likely home right now, finishing out the academic year online. How’s it going? Are students...
Staying Productive Through a Crisis
The world has changed dramatically since you heard from me last. It’s hard to remember what I planned to write about just three or...
4 Email Mistakes That Kill Productivity
Do you spend most of your day on email? You’re in good company. For most of us, the office environment has shrunk from a...
10 Great Summer Reads from LeanBP
July and December are slow months for training, so that’s when I take the time to dive deeper into my course materials and take...
LABP’s Biggest Gift Is Time
How are you coming along with your end-of-year initiatives? Are you realizing noticeable gains, or are you getting bogged down with too much work...
(VIDEO) Is Work in Process Sinking Your Productivity?
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Knowledge work is invisible. It’s inside your head, or buried in emails and files. That’s the biggest problem you face when you’re trying to...
The 8 Biggest Wastes in the Business Office
In my first LeanBP Blog post, I explained the “why” for Lean Applied to Business Processes (LABP). Now, I’m going to explain the “what.”...